Nine officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were sued yesterday over the ‘technical glitch’ found in the November 27 Hungary-bound flight of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Director of maintenance of the national flag carrier SM Asaduzzaman field the case with Airport Police Station in the capital last night. Officer-in-Charge of the police station Nur-e-Azam confirmed the matter. The nine accused are Debesh Chowdhury, SA Siddique, Billal Hossain, SM Rokonuzzaman, Samiul Huq, Lutfar Rahman, Milan Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain, and Siddiqur Rahman. Biman authorities said the case was filed as per the recommendations made by the committees formed to probe the incident.  
Earlier in the day, the draft of the case was finalised at a meeting of Biman top officials with Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon.  
On November 27, a special VVIP flight (BG 1011) ‘Ranga Pravat’ carrying the prime minister and another 99 passengers, including her entourage members, four cockpit crew, 20 cabin crew and four aircraft engineers, left Dhaka for the Hungarian capital at 9:14am. But due to a technical fault, it landed at Ashgabat, the Turkmenistan capital, at 2:15pm Bangladesh time by changing its route. At Ashgabat, the on-duty engineers repaired the glitch and the flight started for Budapest at 6:37pm after over four hours of unscheduled stopover. Later, probe by three probe committees found the technical glitch, which resulted in the emergency landing of the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was ‘man made’. The committees also found that the standard operating procedure (SOP) had not been maintained properly before the special flight left Dhaka for Budapest.